A review by jonknightknighthunterbooks
Peace Talks by Jim Butcher

adventurous fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

2.5

Butcher continues to extrude Dresden Files shaped books, but I'm not the person I was when I started reading them and it's in places jarring that neither Dresden nor Butcher seem to have changed in the 21 years this series has been running (Aside: Good heavens I'm old). 

Where there are queer characters, it's played for titillation rather than being good representation. (An on-again-off-again FF couple form a stable trio with a guy much older than them; a valkyrie repeatedly hits on/comments on
Murphy
stating that
Dresden
can come along for the ride.) Almost every female character is described in terms of their super-human hotness (including a girl Dresden used to babysit); which Butcher attempts to buy forgiveness for by explaining that Dresden's hormones are ramped up to 11 by the mantle of the Winter Knight. It's all just a bit wearing. 

Oh, and it's half a book. I'm guessing the combined MS for Peace Talks & Battle Grounds was too big to sell as one book (or more profitably sold as two). 
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